Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
- Multisyllabic words are words that are composed of two or more syllables.
- Syllable division principles.
- Spelling rules (or generalizations).
- To encode accurately means to spell a word correctly.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Accurately encode (spell) single syllable and multisyllabic words using their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division principles, and spelling generalization.
- Accurately divide words into syllables to spell multisyllabic words correctly.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- To spell (encode), they must accurately represent the letter symbols (graphemes) that correspond to the spoken sounds (phonemes).
- They can use syllable division principles to break a word apart to make it easier to spell.
- They can use their knowledge of the six syllable types to accurately encode words.
- There are spelling rules, or generalizations, in the English language that can help them spell words accurately.
Vocabulary
- Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
- Multisyllabic word construction
- Syllable division principles
- Spelling rules
- Generalizations
- Encode
- Accurately
